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Won a +3 on eBay - which games to buy?After a couple of missed opportunities to get my hands on a +3, I finally won one in an eBay auction this afternoon (put in some sneaky bids in my lu…
... at the bottom?
From memory the discs take several seconds ... -
Help with Spectrum 128k reparationHi! I have the following symptoms with a 128k unit version 6U - On power on, black and white bars (one char width each), white background - Once po…
[QUOTE=mcleod_ideafix;568788]I cannot tell you from memory, but if IC6-IC13 belong to contended memory, then yes...[/QUOTE]
Sorry! I meant: NON contended memory. -
spectrum +2 tape recorder is dead helpMy +2 grey's tape recorder is not even coming on when i press play so i was wondering with the 5 cables going into a plug and then connecting on to a…
... is a mechanical one and from memory the light comes on. If ... -
New SpecBAS available - v0.710Been a while, but I've just uploaded the latest build of SpecBAS. This one now supports tilemaps (with rotation and scaling) and added OVER mode (XO…
... load it as a memory block seperate from the SpecBAS BASIC program ... offer a sort of alternative memory pool, from which it can save ... , and 0 means delete it from memory and forget about it (probably ... code in a seperate memory area, away from SpecBAS (that's why ... -
Speccy achievementsI was musing about what kind of achievements some speccy games might have had if the system was around back then. What individual feats might have m…
... pc games![/QUOTE]
from memory wasn't that port 1 ... -
Speccy achievementsI was musing about what kind of achievements some speccy games might have had if the system was around back then. What individual feats might have m…
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[QUOTE=Wookiee;580523]from memory wasn't that port 1 ... -
Unboxing my old SpeccysToday I dug out my old collection of computers from the bygone age. My ZX81 fired up fine, but it looks like the keyboard membrane is goosed, as on…
Any beeps should come from the TV, from memory. And any game loading noises ... -
Graphics that impressed youDan Dare 3 Extreme Driller (before I started playing it) Mercenary R-Type
Right from memory :
- Exolon
- Splitting Images
- West Bank
- Astronut
- Manic Miner
- Light Force
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What paging scheme is the "standard" for 128K models?Sinclair implemented an arrangement so that even numbered pages are non-contended, and odd numbered pages are contended (quoting from memory, haven't…
... ... (using the opcodes I know from memory)
[code]10 DATA 118 ... -
BBC Micro 30 Years OldFor Beeb fans see here: [url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?p=583615#post583615[/url]
... GOTO 30[/CODE]
From memory, so details are foggy, but ... -
What paging scheme is the "standard" for 128K models?Sinclair implemented an arrangement so that even numbered pages are non-contended, and odd numbered pages are contended (quoting from memory, haven't…
... sufficient data has been fetched from memory. The fetch will start soon ... not necessarily obvious.
From your description, it also seems ... -
Faulty Multiface 1Hello... I have a MF1 that doesn't work. You press the red button and nothing happens... It is not my spectrum's M1 line because MF128 works fine on …
I believe from memory that's the one. Check the schematics to be sure though... -
making a low end 8 bit machineI am getting an old style pc desktop case which i am going to put my own pc in but the machine already in it is a Pentium 3 cpu (dunno what the speed…
Puppyarcade may be worth a look if you don't mind going linux. It is meant to contain a load of configured emulators that work out of the box.
From memory puppy linux is meant to run on fairly low end pc's. -
making a low end 8 bit machineI am getting an old style pc desktop case which i am going to put my own pc in but the machine already in it is a Pentium 3 cpu (dunno what the speed…
... of the box.
From memory puppy linux is meant to ... -
Players Premier gamesI was, and still am, in amazement at Players Premier games (post 1988). The games themselves could be hit and miss in the excitement department, but …
The Players games were definitely a case of the presentation being far better than the gameplay. The [I]Joe Blade[/I] titles (well, one and three) were probably the best thing they did from memory. -
BackgroundDoes anyone know how i would create a background similar to [URL=http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/42/backgroundmockup.png/][IMG]http://img42.ima…
[QUOTE=ooze48k;587840]Whats an orange manual?
Sincerely,
Ooze48k[/QUOTE]
It's the manual that came with the rubberkeyed Speccy ... but that's just going from memory ... which could be waaaay off. -
BackgroundDoes anyone know how i would create a background similar to [URL=http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/42/backgroundmockup.png/][IMG]http://img42.ima…
... ... but that's just going from memory ... which could be waaaay off ... -
Testing needed (+demo)Hi, As my "next" project is mostly finished (still hoping to get it out next week), I realised I need some testing. So here's a demo. [url]http://…
... seem like its own game. From memory, [I]Rough Justice[/I] is ... -
Testing needed (+demo)Hi, As my "next" project is mostly finished (still hoping to get it out next week), I realised I need some testing. So here's a demo. [url]http://…
... I have the time and memory I will see if I ... seem like its own game. From memory, [I]Rough Justice[/I] is ... -
Greatest Album's by YearHello list fans! For absolutely no reason at all, (well maybe boredom played a part), here's a list of what I think are the greatest album's by year …
... - paul mccartney
1998 painted from memory - elvis costello & burt bacharach ... -
Greatest Album's by YearHello list fans! For absolutely no reason at all, (well maybe boredom played a part), here's a list of what I think are the greatest album's by year …
... - paul mccartney
1998 painted from memory - elvis costello & burt bacharach ... -
Testing Z80 op codesHappy new year all! I'm currently testing my Z80 emulator (hand written from scratch in C#) and I've possibly now gone insane, testing is taking hug…
... I meant. I was working from memory and posting from my iPod. -
Faulty Interface one, IF1Dear all, as I have already mentioned in a different thread my IF1 stopped working for no special reason. I went through the service manual and chec…
From memory there ate no electrolytics.
To be honest it's probably your ULA, which means you need a new If1.
If you're lucky it'll be one if the many transistors, though! -
Using ATTR detection in machine codeIs there a ROM routine that can be called that reads the ATTR value of a co-ordinate?
... to read the attributes directly from memory starting at 22528. Depending on ... -
Fairlight's use of LDIRYS, comparing Fairlight and Nightshade, said: [quote]Fairlight is much more interesting even though the techniques that Bo Jangeborg uses for screen…
... to move the screen buffer from memory to where you can see ... draw line by line upwards from the bottom. This avoids any ... drawing line by line "upwards from the bottom" is better. Any ... goes backwards, so going upwards from the bottom would be expected ... -
Another game huntI've started reading The Hobbit and the story of the dragon that the dwarves are telling Bilbo reminded me of a game. The only thing I can remember …
from memory Flashback starts with an escape in a flying car and a crash in the jungle
Another World is a scientist in a lab....but not seen any birds on the few screens I've gotten through ;) -
Another game huntI've started reading The Hobbit and the story of the dragon that the dwarves are telling Bilbo reminded me of a game. The only thing I can remember …
[QUOTE=Wookiee;595114]from memory Flashback starts with an escape ...